McGill University and Center for Innovative Medicine, McGill University Health Center/Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Canada
Biography
Jacques Genest obtained his MD at McGill University and did a residency in Internal Medicine at McGill then a cardiology fellowship at Tufts University in Boston. He did Post-doctoral studies in Boston in lipoprotein metabolism and molecular genetics at Tufts University. Since 2000, he is Professor of Medicine and holds the McGill/Novartis Chair in Medicine at McGill. From 2000-10, he was Head of Cardiology at McGill University. He was Director of the Center for Innovative Medicine at the McGill University Health Center (MUHC), 2010-14.
